Egg wrote:Even the disturbing Wikipedia-quote about Scrooge and "symptoms of clinical depression", obviously a case of Rosa being mixed-up with Barks.

But Don Rosa didn't write that quote, so I don't see the problem.Btw, why do you think depression of Scrooge is Rosaish? Both Barks' and Don Rosa's Scrooge gets depressed sometimes, i.e. when his money falls in a deep cave, in Christmas for Shacktown.

Egg wrote:But I look at the report of the campfire-sacrilege of 'The Magic Hourglass'. I see a Wikipedia-quote about Scrooge and "symptoms of clinical depression", obviously a case of Rosa being mixed-up with Barks. I see DCML being shut down in honour of Rosa.

And none of that is done directly by Rosa. When John lennon got shot by his fan, it wasn't Lennons fault, right? So when Don Rosa-fans take dicisions that work out bad for Barks, it's not Don Rosa's fault.

Egg wrote:(How arrogant to claim that you have someone all figured out, by the way.)

Stephan wrote:Both Barks' and Don Rosa's Scrooge gets depressed sometimes, i.e. when his money falls in a deep cave, in Christmas for Shacktown.

The article mentions "depicted as even suffering from symptoms of clinical depression" during that so-called retirement.

Stephan wrote:

Egg wrote:But I look at the report of the campfire-sacrilege of 'The Magic Hourglass'. I see a Wikipedia-quote about Scrooge and "symptoms of clinical depression", obviously a case of Rosa being mixed-up with Barks. I see DCML being shut down in honour of Rosa.

And none of that is done directly by Rosa. When John lennon got shot by his fan, it wasn't Lennons fault, right? So when Don Rosa-fans take dicisions that work out bad for Barks, it's not Don Rosa's fault.

What do you mean?

Stephan wrote:

Egg wrote:(How arrogant to claim that you have someone all figured out, by the way.)

Stephan wrote:And none of that is done directly by Rosa. When John lennon got shot by his fan, it wasn't Lennons fault, right? So when Don Rosa-fans take dicisions that work out bad for Barks, it's not Don Rosa's fault.

Egg wrote:What do you mean?

That it's not exactly Don Rosa's fault, I think. I.e., the Magic Hourglass story got changed because Don Rosa saw it as fictional fiction, but I'm sure Don Rosa wouldn't want the story to be changed. It's the editors who decided that Barks' work should suffer because of something Don Rosa said.Nor did Don Rosa write the article on Wikipedia. Btw, how do you mean "I see DCML being shut down in honour of Rosa."? Will DCML be shut down?

That's different from a retirement and a "clinical depression". There's a later Barks-story in which Scrooge is despressed and angry about christmas, pointing to a calendar angrily. I believe the picture's in Wim van Helden's book. Maybe you know the story?

Stephan wrote:That it's not exactly Don Rosa's fault, I think. I.e., the Magic Hourglass story got changed because Don Rosa saw it as fictional fiction, but I'm sure Don Rosa wouldn't want the story to be changed. It's the editors who decided that Barks' work should suffer because of something Don Rosa said.

Rosa is known to publicly protest whenever he hates something. So why don't he protest about this?

Stephan wrote:Nor did Don Rosa write the article on Wikipedia.

Of course Don Rosa isn't guilty personally or directly. I believe he's protested about hardcore fans. Of course there's colour. But how can I discuss if I have to fill in both sides by myself? You can read DCML too. Especially now the archive of 1992-1999 is available again, on McDuck.

Stephan wrote:Btw, how do you mean "I see DCML being shut down in honour of Rosa."? Will DCML be shut down?

With the dramatic wording "shut down", I meant that emails are first read by some fanclub-people, before they can appear on DCML. I have a quite innocent email on 'The Magic Hourglass' that got rejected because Rosa-people would object. Such idiot censoring and judging makes me so funny about Rosa and Co. What else can I do but laugh about it? The truth is too painful.

Doctor Witchie Britchie wrote:Oops! That should be "I wouldn't call that depressed, just cranky and ornery." Sorry.

I agree 100%! He was the OPPOSITE of depressed. He was enjoying his second favourite pastime (other than counting, looking at, smelling, swimming in and playing in his money) reveling in his contempt for the average human (animal/human), who is lazy, selfish and has no decent values).

Egg wrote:There's a later Barks-story in which Scrooge is despressed and angry about christmas, pointing to a calendar angrily. I believe the picture's in Wim van Helden's book. Maybe you know the story?

There are a lot of Christmas stories by Barks... Maybe one of the following, with Scrooge: FC0367 A Christmas for Shacktown, CP09 Christmas in Duckburg, DG The Christmas Cha-Cha, WDCS268 Christmas Cheers, WDCS280 Double Masquerade or U$47 The Thrifty Spendthrift?